So does this mean I no longer have to test my website with Windows IE (6!) 7-10 at all ever, under any circumstances? And be able to tell clients that IE11 onwards is all that has to work in IE-land?
Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
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Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#12So does this mean I no longer have to test my website with Windows IE (6!) 7-10 at all ever, under any circumstances? And be able to tell clients that IE11 onwards is all that has to work in IE-land?
You can tell your clients you only support whatever you want, and they can tell you they won't be a client of yours anymore unless you support what they want.
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#13So does this mean I no longer have to test my website with Windows IE (6!) 7-10 at all ever, under any circumstances? And be able to tell clients that IE11 onwards is all that has to work in IE-land?
Depends on your client. Currently my company only supports IE9+. I personally only support IE10+, though I'll still throw on a shiv or use modernizer, but I'm not going out of my way. This hasn't cost any business. IE8's stickiness is largely from older business machines or China. For client facing sites in the U.S./E.U., imo the support isn't warranted unless you can point out through analytics that it would alienate a big portion of your audience.
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#14Thank goodness. IE 11 has enough warts and weirdness; having to deal with all the brokenness in IE 8 was driving my front-end colleagues to alcoholism...
I have a beautiful dream sometimes, where I go to work, and I only have to care about supporting Chrome...
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#15Thank goodness. IE 11 has enough warts and weirdness; having to deal with all the brokenness in IE 8 was driving my front-end colleagues to alcoholism... I have a beautiful dream sometimes, where I go to work, and I only have to care about supporting Chrome...
IE11 has an IE7 compatibility mode so line-of-business apps are going to be targeting IE7 for a long time to come. One of my employer's clients is only now willing to pay to upgrade from IE5.5 rendering on IE8 to IE7 on 11.
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#16There are a lot of businesses that use older versions of Windows and use Internet Explorer as their default web browser and use group policy from a Windows Server to prevent the install of a third part web browser. Forcing everyone to use IE. They will be vulnerable to attacks because of this and they will refuse to pay money to upgrade from XP or Vista to go to Windows 10. It will be because their business software…
They will be vulnerable to attacks because of this
Actually, chances are such an environment will also have the other security settings tightly locked down too, and even outside the browser executables may be whitelisted, so it's not as bad as it may seem at first.
Just disabling JS probably gets rid of 90%+ of the attack surface of any browser including IE.
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#17Thank goodness. IE 11 has enough warts and weirdness; having to deal with all the brokenness in IE 8 was driving my front-end colleagues to alcoholism... I have a beautiful dream sometimes, where I go to work, and I only have to care about supporting Chrome...
> I have a beautiful dream sometimes, where I go to work, and I only have to care about supporting Chrome...
I understand the sentiment, but to be clear: Ideally we do not want any one vendor with a majority browser share. Otherwise someone will get complacent and we'll have a repeat of the dark times (IE6). Having multiple browser vendors is good for the web.
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#18Are there any guesses when the support for IE 11 ends? Or when will Microsoft remove IE from Windows? Never?
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
The latest IE for Vista SP2 looks to be IE9, so it looks like it'll continue to receive updates. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle#gp/Microsoft-I...
Doesn't seem to have much market share: https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr... IE8 still has over 10%
Acording to this other source it's only 2%. These estimates are so different it's hard to trust on any of it.
http://gs.statcounter.com/#desktop-browser_version_partially...
Browser trend will probably be more influenced by region and public. If your public is stay home dads in China you should definitvely be looking into iE8, if your public is tech workers in the Bay Area you shouldn't even care about iE11.
Re: Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
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